ENG 290 - British Literature II: From Romanticism to Modernism

Institution:

Roger Williams University

Subject:

ENGLISH LITERATURE

Description:

Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core ConcentrationPrerequisite: WTNG 102This course surveys "British" literature from the late 18th centuryto WWII. It provides a sense of literary history, as well as anunderstanding of socio-cultural ideologies and historical eventsthat these texts both reflect and project (e.g., an increasinglycommercialized literary marketplace, urbanization, the competingideologies of gender equality and separate spheres, Darwinianscience, British imperialism, and the emergence of the post-colonialconsciousness). Students gain an overview of the various canonical"periods" and movements that shape the study of British literature(e.g., the rise of the novel, Victorian, and Modern literature). Thiscourse carries a heavy reading load in both primary texts and culturalbackgrounds. Authors include Goldsmith, Austen, Gaskell, both Eliots,Joyce, Woolf, and Wilde.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rwu.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 253-1040

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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